Katherine Swynford Quotes

“This obsession with death and suffering revealed itself in literature, poetry, art, and particularly in sculpture, with the appearance of cadaver tombs with an effigy of the deceased in life above, and another depicting his or her rotting corpse below—a grisly reminder of the end of all flesh.”
― Alison Weir, Mistress of the Monarchy: The Life of Katherine Swynford, Duchess of Lancaster

“war was a dangerous business, and those who escaped death at the hands of the enemy often perished as a result of the dysentery and disease that could decimate armies.”
― Alison Weir, Mistress of the Monarchy: The Life of Katherine Swynford, Duchess of Lancaster